Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

I much prefer the modern world.

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.